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A firm getting its start in the Triangle Business Incubator aims to grow with the new model for health-care being required by the Affordable Care Act. A problem posed by Maris “Buster” McCrabb’s nephew who works in patient rehabilitation got him thinking about smart phone capabilities in health care. The nephew, Jason Hazelrigg, wanted a way to get information from patients in a summarized way for doctors to use. McCrabb, a veteran who has been running DMM Ventures in York County to provide information technology services as a contractor to the federal government, saw a way to branch out into the commercial sphere. In his market research, McCrabb found that patients...

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A firm getting its start in the Triangle Business Incubator aims to grow with the new model for health-care being required by the Affordable Care Act.
A problem posed by Maris “Buster” McCrabb’s nephew who works in patient rehabilitation got him thinking...

Head football coaches are often referred to figuratively as CEOs of a program or franchise. Virginia's fledgling United Football League franchise took the unusual step of hiring a CEO as its first head coach.
Joe Moglia, who gave up a promsing coaching...

Turn on the TV for a few minutes, and you're sure to hear an advertisement for a fitness club or health spa. The idea is that traditional retail's strongest season has just ended, so now you have time to think about your fitness resolutions.
Many...

Within a few short days last week, the United Football League engineered a coaching switch, folded and relocated a franchise, and was sued by its most visible partner to recoup a multi-million dollar loan.
Not exactly signs of stability from a start-up...

NEW YORK — Since it was founded 12 years ago, the Tribeca Film Festival has sometimes swerved between identities like a barfly at happy hour, exuberant but hardly always clear.
The festival looks to change that this time around. Tribeca has entered an...

A doctor might ask for a patient's family disease history, or exercise or smoking habits, but whether they have trouble getting food onto the table or paying energy bills is unlikely to appear on any clinic questionnaire.Those sorts of factors could...

A federal appeals court swept aside government regulations designed to ensure equal access to the Internet, raising the prospects of higher fees for consumers and more barriers for start-ups seeking to compete online.
The decision Tuesday could allow...

(Reuters) - On President's Day last month, about 40 electric-car advocates gathered under the rotunda of the state capitol in Olympia, Washington, where a lobbyist for Tesla Motors Inc urged them to rally against a bill that would prevent the carmaker...

Walt Disney Co. is giving 10 startup companies the chance at $120,000 to develop their ideas and receive mentoring from top company executives.
The three-month mentorship and seed-stage investment program, called Disney Accelerator, begins June 30, and...

Drayton McLane in the French Quarter?
No, it couldn't be. I didn't believe my eyes when I first saw him browsing in a shop with his wife, Elizabeth, last January, figuring it had to be a guy who looked like McLane. But there he was 10 minutes later,...

Chuck Templeton believes that the greenest thing anyone can do is not buy something.
That's why Templeton, the founder of restaurant reservation website OpenTable.com, and business partner Arun Sivashankaran, 35, are launching OhSoWe.com,...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Jake Winebaum is betting on a Web-based solution to take the hassle and price worry out of a health obligation many of us fear and some can't even afford - going to the dentist.
In addition to offering hefty discounts on everything...

While craft beer fans hedge their bets on whether Sunday's Super Bowl play-by-play is more suited to hopped-up IPAs or intensely flavored stouts, Greg Koch will be deliberating over a lot more than what to sip on game day. In the coming weeks, the...